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KNOX – As councillor apologizes, Horgan eyes inter-provincial travel ban

January 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

SHARMARKE DUBOW apologized again Thursday. “By travelling to see my family at a time when so many others in our community did not do the same, I let you down,” he told [Continue]

KNOX – While raging against globe-trotters, take a look in the mirror

January 10, 2021 // 1 Comment

THE GOOD NEWS: it’s easier to fight off Victoria’s grey, damp winter chill when your blood is boiling. For those keeping score at home (and really, it’s hard to keep [Continue]

KNOX – Birth, life and pandemic-inspired tech that shrinks the world

December 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

DURING THE 1994 Commonwealth Games, an Australian athlete became a father. Pat Scammell wasn’t around for the birth. The middle-distance runner was here in Victoria, [Continue]

KNOX – Add one large ‘three wise ones’ wood carving to Dr. Bonnie tributes

December 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

GOLD, FRANKINCENSE and Moderna? No, the Mayne Island Magi come bearing gifts of calm, kindness and safety — fitting, seeing as one of them is Dr. Bonnie Henry. “I call [Continue]

KNOX – The Rumbles return, but where are they coming from?

December 6, 2020 // 1 Comment

THE RUMBLES RETURNED this week, which means the Grumbles did, too. OK, maybe not so much grumbles as a quick dive under the bed to brace for an earthquake that didn’t come, [Continue]

KNOX – For new B.C. cabinet minister, this is why she got into politics

November 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

JIM HARTSHORNE is a West Shore developer, hardly the image that comes to mind when thinking of who might heap praise on a New Democrat politician. But then that politician, [Continue]

KNOX – In an ocean of COVID, many are reluctant to grab a life jacket

November 22, 2020 // 2 Comments

HEY, REMEMBER 2019, when we all got freaked out about anti-vaxxer parents recklessly allowing their kids to spread measles in B.C.’s school system? Good times, good times. [Continue]

KNOX – Storm’s a comin’ – what’s in your emergency kit?

November 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT WAS WINDY Friday. I couldn’t do a thing with my hair. Either of them. How windy? Your garbage can lid went on an unscheduled vacation, which, during this ¬pandemic, [Continue]

KNOX – Author Ian Haysom is not your father’s grandfather

October 11, 2020 // 1 Comment

THIS ISN’T THE BOOK I expected Ian Haysom to write. Having run the newsrooms of the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, BCTV, CHEK and Global B.C., and being a [Continue]

KNOX – Trapped by a tax he can’t afford to pay or fight

September 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

WHEN BIG O TIRE burned in View Royal, Eric Chang was visibly upset. “Don is such a good neighbour,” he said as black smoke billowed into the sky. “He’s a good guy.” [Continue]

KNOX – From the bubble, a tribute to Mum on her 100th birthday

September 26, 2020 // 8 Comments

MY MOTHER, Jean Knox, turns 100 years old today, totally screwing up my retirement-budget calculations. I put her longevity down to stubbornness. She never was a quitter, [Continue]

KNOX – Even with all the smoke it’s clear an election is looming

September 20, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT’S SMOKY OUT THERE. Need-headlights-at-4-p.m. smoky. Not as bad as newsrooms in 1982, mind you, but still as gloomy as a travel agent. We can see one thing clearly, [Continue]

KNOX – Are the wheels falling off the work-from-home bus?

September 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT’S THE LABOUR DAY WEEKEND. Labour as in time to go back to work — which, for many people these days means popping open a laptop on the kitchen counter. If there has [Continue]

KNOX – It’s no fun when sharing a name means sharing the blame

August 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

A COLORADO RADIO HOST named Erin O’Toole woke up this week to discover that, unbeknownst to her, she had become leader of the Conservative Party of Canada overnight. Or, [Continue]